Mr.Prabhakaran. S

Mr.Prabhakaran. S

Tutor
Area: Agricultural Microbiology
Affiliation: Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, SRM Institute of Science and Technology
E-mail:prabhaks4@srmist.edu.in

Education

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Courses

• Fundamentals of Microbiology
• Soil and Applied Microbiology
• Introduction to Microbiology

Research Interests

• Biofuel Production
• Organic waste management
• Organic farming-Biopesticide formulation and biofertilizer

Conference/ Seminars/ Workshops Attended

• Participated in 5th International Conference on Sustainable Utilization of Tropical Plant Biomass: Bioproducts, Biocatalyst and Biorefinery(SutB4)
• Participated and presented a paper titled “Bioaugmentation in Anaerobic Digesters for Enhanced Methane Production” in National symposium on “Trends in agricultural and Biosystems Engineering (TABE’17)” conducted at Tamil Nadu agricultural University.
• Participated in the National Seminar on Frontiers in Applied Microbiology.

Trainings

• Undergone a certificate course on Mushroom Production training at TNAU
• Undergone a certificate course on Bee Keeping training at TNAU

Academic/ Research Experiences

• Working us a Junior Research Fellow in GoI-DST-SERB-ECR Scheme - “Biotechnological valorization of Molasses Distillery Spent Wash (MSDW) through production of single cell oil and simultaneous removal of potential nutrients”at Dept. of Crop Management, Kumaraguru Institute of Agriculture, Sakthinagar, Erode.
• Worked as a SRF in NRRI, Cuttack for 45 days in scheme entitled “National Initiative on Climate Resilient Agriculture”.

Achievements and Awards

• Student Junior Research Fellow in the scheme entitled “Bioaugmentation in an upflow anaerobic sludge blanklet(UASB) and Hybrid bioreactor treating community waste water” under Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) R&D.
• Best Poster Award for poster presentation entitled “Bioaugmentation in Anaerobic Digesters for Enhanced Methane Production” in National symposium on “Trends in agricultural and Biosystems Engineering (TABE’17)” held at Coimbatore on March 27-28, 2017.
• Qualified ICAR NET-2018